105 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed May 4, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$8.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$6.4M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.9M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: monster-worldwide.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
LAW
99 filings
$8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
84 filings
$7.2M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
83 filings
$6M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
82 filings
$7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
76 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
69 filings
$6.4M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
62 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
61 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Education
EDU
49 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
14 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
113th Congress
Patent Abuse Reduction Act of 2013
11 filingsthrough 2014
S. 866113th CongressPatent Quality Improvement Act of 201311 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.11 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.11 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 213114th CongressFairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
S. 181114th CongressStartup Act9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 392115th CongressFairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4175111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1262110th CongressStudent Loan Accountability and Disclosure Reform Act8 filingsthrough 2008
S. 177114th CongressData Security and Breach Notification Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1525113th CongressSave America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 633113th CongressFairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 803113th CongressWorkforce Innovation and Opportunity Act7 filingsthrough 2014
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
38 filingsthrough 2017
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus38 filingsthrough 2017
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst. Sec. of Commerce for Tech Policy38 filingsthrough 2017
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln27 filingsthrough 2015
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Frist24 filingsthrough 2014
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Leg Assistant, Rep. Bob Franks; Leg Assistant, Rep. Hal Rogers; Special Projects Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Staff Assistant, Rep. Bud Shuster10 filingsthrough 2017
Michael CollinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Tom Udall Legislative Director, Senator Tom Udall Legislative Director, Representative Tom Udall Legislative Assistant, Representative Tom Udall Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative Tom Udall10 filingsthrough 2017
Thomas DavisMonster WorldwideCovered position: Member of Congress8 filingsthrough 2022
Susan ZookMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Rep. Bill Shuster8 filingsthrough 2015
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats; Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg; General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole6 filingsthrough 2017
Karin HudsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Asst. Sen. Chris Dodd4 filingsthrough 2008
Kelly VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 25 of 27 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
